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1842
Merlin 29th January, 1842 A grand ball will take place under the patronage of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. at the Great Room of the National School, which will be decorated for the occasion, on the seventh of February in celebration of the Christening of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. The Prince was christened Albert Edward and was born on 9th November, 1841.
Mr. Townsend of Queen's Hill, merchant, has opened a communication between Stow Hill and Hill Street, by which persons residing at that end of the town have a much shorter walk than through Charles Street, and have also the finest prospect from the top of Hill Street of the Channel and the surrounding country that is presented from any other position. The ground in the immediate vicinity of the new road is to be let for building, and a healthier spot we think could not be found. Merlin. 10th September, 1842 Mrs. Ann Rowcroft appeared on a summons, to answer the complaint of Mrs. Bridget Granville for an assault. The parties in the case are residents of Pill, Mrs. Granville being the wife of a corporal of the 11th Regiment, and Mrs. Rowcroft the spouse of an industrious hobbler on the wharfs. It appears that the defendant keeps a number of pigs, which occasionally take the liberty of transgressing the limits within which they ought to confine themselves, and roam about in the neighbourhood of Mrs. Granville's residence, much to the annoyance of that lady, who, upon the occasion complained of, was so incensed at their intrusion, that she gave one of the grunters a blow on the back with a stick; but the dumb "crittur", as Mrs. Rowcroft designated it, not liking such striking marks of the military lady's favour, raised a terrible outcry immediately, which brought its owner to the spot. High words ensued between the parties; Mrs. Rowcroft was determined to have satisfaction for the insult offered to her pig, and without more ado, she put herself in a boxing attitude and delivered a hit on Mrs. Granville's ivories which brought first blood. Jeremiah Carey being called, corroborated the statement of Mrs. Granville, and by an incidental observation, let us into Mrs. Granville's enmity to the pigs; - he stated that in front of the row of houses in which the parties resided, there are no less than four great dung hills, for which Mrs. Rowcroft's pigs have a particular penchant, and which they root up with all possible industry on every occasion, by which means they raise such an intolerable odour, that as Mr. Carey addressing the Magistrates said, "if your Worships smelled it this hot weather, you might as well be fumigated as wanst . The town commissioners who never penetrate the terra incognita of Pill, cannot be supposed to be aware of the abominable nuisances and pestilent pools which abound in those parts of the borough, which are exclusively inhabited by the poor; but if they would allow us to suggest that if those centres of contagion be allowed much longer to exist they may produce an epidemic disease, which, after sweeping away numbers of the poor, may at last reach themselves and their families, they may awake to a sense of their duty, which perhaps nothing but an apprehension of personal danger could urge them faithfully to discharge. - Mrs. Rowcroft was convicted in a penalty of ten shillings and costs or to be imprisoned for a month.
The Magistrates having some time since refused to renew the license of this infamous house to Chapman, the person who has kept it for some years, intimated, at the same time, that they were desirous that the refusal should be accompanied by as little loss as possible to him, and that they would not object to renew the license to any person of respectable character whom he might get to take it. It is to be hoped that this receptacle for all the wickedness of Friar's Fields will be now shut up.
Mary Garwood, better known as "Mary the Cripple" was called on, and forthwith this hideous creature descended from a bench in the dock, on which she had been erected, to the floor, along which she crawled with a gait absolutely not human. Having reached the table at which the Magistrates were sitting, she coiled herself upon the floor and gazing around her with a shameless look of mixed triumph and defiance, she awaited the enquiry. - We understand that active measures are about to be taken to remove, if possible, the disgraceful houses which abound in Friars' Fields; and with this view, proceedings are ordered to be taken against the keepers of them. The "blue-eyed hag" now before the bench, being the most notorious and infamous, was the first chosen and this was on information against her for creating a breach of the peace on the morning of Sunday the 4th of September, by cursing and swearing and inciting two men named Farr and Griffiths to fight upon that occasion. The charge was proved by P.C. Huxtable and the prisoner was convicted in a penalty of £2 and £1 costs which she immediately paid and disappeared.
The first interment in this Cemetery took place on Wednesday morning, when the infant child of the Rev. Thomas Parry, minister of the Hope Chapel, in this town, was buried there, the Rev. Messrs J. Jones, and D.R. Stephen officiating. The chapel and keeper's house are in progress of erection; in a short time it is expected the works will be completed, and the cemetery opened for sepulture to all classes, creeds, and colours, without distinction or preference.
On Tuesday night last, about nine o'clock, a labouring man in the employ of Charles Morgan M.P., of Ruperra Castle, was sitting in his cottage when he was disturbed by the cry of an infant, he arose without delay and went out into the open air, when he observed a basket lying under his window from which he soon ascertained that the cries proceeded. On examining the basket he found its contents to be a very fine male infant, well dressed, together with two good changes of apparel and three remarkably neat caps. The poor cottager and his family treated the little foundling with kindness, and he is so well pleased with the helpless stranger that he has expressed his determination to rear it up as his own - thus furnishing a pleasing instance of the generous feeling which characterizes the peasantry of our country, and a very striking contrast to the heartless conduct of the cruel parents, who abandoned their tender offspring to perish or be supported by public charity. The infant remains under the care of the kind cottager. [ Back ] |
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